Talk:Longmore's Disc

I wonder who created this device? The only Longmore of the period was Arthur M. Longmore, who as far as I can tell never specialised in Torpedoes and later went on to be an Air Chief Marshal in the Royal Air Force. —Simon Harley 09:54, 14 March 2011 (UTC)

I have no idea as yet. It is very hard to get all the data out of the ARTS volumes... a lot of jumping around is required. Some of my recent work is nearly retyping stuff from there, as I do not always have the fullest understanding of what is being described. Some abysmal imagery, too -- some figures are illegible, basically, and sometimes I stopped photographing in the middle of a good passage. Tone 15:07, 14 March 2011 (UTC)

It really is astounding how many different inventions (for want of a better word) the R.N. was trialling or putting into service. I'm assuming that you've only scraped the tip of the iceberg when it comes to cataloguing all these devices?

Out of interest, was there an equivalent Excellent series to the ARTS that you know of? —Simon Harley 15:13, 14 March 2011 (UTC)